154 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



hunting the clean boot will become a favourite 

 sport in those open countries where the working 

 of the hounds can be followed. 



Very remarkable stories are told of the blood- 

 hound's power of working on a cold scent, not the 

 least remarkable among those I have heard being 

 one in which the hounds are said to have followed 

 the trail of a man who, after running five miles, 

 performed the rest of his journey in a cart. The 

 hounds, nevertheless, ran up to their man as he 

 was solacing himself with bread -and -cheese and 

 beer in a public-house, though they had not been 

 put on his line till five hours after he had gone 

 away. This story recalls to my mind the well- 

 known print by Aiken of Mr Musters being hunted 

 by his own foxhounds, concerning which a marvel- 

 lous instance of picking up a line is told. The 

 hounds were to sleep out before the next day's 

 hunting, and were being taken to their destination 

 in the charge of the first whipper-in. Mr Musters, 

 who hunted the hounds himself, was also to sleep 

 at a friend's house, which was some four miles 

 distant from the kennels. For the first part of 

 the way his road was not that taken by the 

 hounds, though he came on to it later, and pushed 

 on as fast as his hack would carry him to get well 

 in front of them. Directly the hounds came to 

 the point in the road at which Mr Musters had 

 joined it, every hound in the pack started off in 

 pursuit of him in spite of all that could be done to 

 stop them, and in less than a mile came up with 



